hello there. Just today I found one of our barred rock cockerels(about 4 months old) lying funny on the ground while the rest of the flock was free ranging just fine with him. We've found that for some reason his limbs on the left side of his body won't work, his leg and wing are completely...
This year at the fair me and my siblings are taking some chickens. It's our 1st year doing it. I am bringing a buff brahma we got from bomgaars and i am wondering what will judges look for in it? how do feathers need to look, what comb type do they want, etc? ive tried looking these things up...
Yesterday and today the eggs my family and i have in our incubator started hatching. Everything has been going fine, but in the past hour one chick has gotten really sick. it cant walk, sprawls around, and is breathing very hard with its eyes closed. for context, it is about a day old and is a...
Hiya, so about a week ago now me and my family got some chicks from bomgaars like normal. This americana chick in the pictures, named Piper, started growing in her feathers normally but some are curving weird. The curvy feathers only happens in a certain part of the wing, and on both wings. This...
Thinking about maybe getting some mystic onyx hens this spring, and I've found through research that they have 5 toes total, and all of me and my family's chickens right now have 4 toes. I've heard that chickens with different toe counts can't breed, although I'm not sure if that is true. Can...
hi there, new to this website. Last spring, Me and my family incubated and hatched our chicken's eggs to see what we would get. We got some chickens from a New Hampshire rooster and our Buff Polish hens, which my mom has dubbed, "Crested New Englands". I'm curious if anybody else here has bred...